Well........, what can I say about these last
few weeks? It has been a rocket ride to say the least. The mainstream media
show us nightly polls with Clinton maintaining a very healthy approval rating.
It has shifted a bit, but down enough to show inpending doom. I've never
been one to disregard all polling as biased or irrelevant, though I believe
results can be used improperly to form opinion. The Zogby Poll is the most
accurate polling outfit that I know of. They were the only ones to properly
predict the 1996 Elections. Network polls told us Clinton would win with
up to 18 points over Senator Bob Dole. They also told us California Initiatives
Prop 187, 209 and 227 (anti-illegal imigration propositions in CA) were
going to be too close to call when it seems that they simply did not want
to anger Hispanics with the truth. It has been said the polls being news
is contrary to our democratic process. I dont believe they are worthwhile
daily news. They certainly do affect opinion. Recent polls have inadventantly
revealed the President is in big trouble in the later questions about felonies,
obstrcucting justice, perjury, witness tampering, ect., (all the juicy stuff
that will be fatal to this Administration) and what the American people
will tolerate.

There are real alarms sounding about the mindset
of this Country. I have concluded that the reason we are so far down the
drain because the American "soul" is polluted and the moral compass
has been smashed. We deserve what we allow to take place. It's hard to believe
Gary Hart's campaign was decimated by a sex scandal in one fell swoop in
1988 (only 10 years ago). Now look at the dialog we have and the indisgressions
we dismiss. Is America better off now that we have shed our puritanical
restraints and are being freed to emulate the more sexually liberated European
attitudes? One question: When, in the last 50 years has Europe led anybody
by thier example. I don't want to emulate the European nations. Thier morale
credibility is pretty low in this last century as the soil over there still
holds the blood millions of men. (Germany 10 million?, Russia (20 Million
just in World War 2?). How about France who despises the western culture
more than terrorist freindly nations? My point is stated. Europhiles are
now allowed to sit down and shut up. Next. Let's try another angle on this
agruement.

Some cynical people have insisted we don't elect
a president to be our pastors or priests, they also state that no one is
perfect, we are all flawed and he who is without sin should cast the first
stone. This is simply outrageous! We don't need to elect the Pope, but a
man with reasonable self control and judgement is not too much to demand.
There are gradations of sin as far as the law in concerned. We're not talking
about Christian Theology here where all sin can seperate us from the Almighty
less the blood of the Lamb. Our society differentiates between J walkers
and Murderers. Both infractions require some measure of justice, but not
the same punishment.

I believe a man or woman can have an episode
of infidelity and still manage to work it out in a marriage. It will not
come without a price and things may never be the same. This is different
than a man who is lead by his impulses who is continually pursuing other
women, thrives on the risks and thrills of a very natural impulse in men.
Our civilizing of men in our society results in men not simply running out
and taking strange women who appeal to us, it also prevents us from impulsively
raping attractive women and killing other men who threaten our quest for
a large variety of women. This is our natural "lower nature" and
there few who believe that we should allow nature to rule in this respect.

A wife causes a husband to be civilized, adds
year to his life and adds meaning to his life. A husband who slips and is
unfaithful to his wife causes great pain, destroys trust and risks everything
that is valuable to him. This certainly can wreck a marriage, though it
doesn't have to necessarily wreck it. If the man continues with this reckless
and selfish behavior and doesn't stop acting on his hormones, then things
are very different. This is not the same at a lapse of judgement. This is
a lifestyle. This is a reflection of a man's character and a glimpse of
how he views women. It is sheer selfishness and may speak volumes about
many other nonsexual decisions this person might make.

Our Society underwent a social revolution in
the 1960's where free love was preached (and practiced ), mankind is woman
and womankind is man, make love not war and do what feels good. The Me Generation
developed thier roots and America's foundation was severly cracked. Moral
Relativism started to chip away at the standards we all held and agreed
were correct. They proclaimed that there is no absolute truth, only what
we personally believe is correct and no human being has the right to judge
another person for his actions and say that they are wrong. Is a Jimmy Carter
who admitted to lusting in his heart the equivalent of a hopeless, habitual
womanizing Bill Clinton?

The word "nonjudgementalism" is a
new creation of this generation. All repsects of limits to our human behavior
are under siege. Clinton is the ultimate creation of the 60's "Flower
Power" generation. Our President can lie to us, mislead us, cause the
people who support and follow him to cover and lie for him, threaten his
enemies, rob the political victories from his opponents, hobnob with the
country's richest and powerful people at Martha's Vineyard while claiming
to be a populist and a common man of the people, feeling our pain, running
a secret police to discredit and imtimidate his detractors, an army of spin
doctors to sway public opinion and since saying he want to help, touching
on the concerns of our "soccer moms", biting his bottom lip with
a compassionate expression on his face is enough keep the sheep following
the Sheppard.

Talk is cheap. A good speaker can motivate and
cause people to feel good. Actions have always spoken louder than words.
Is it more important for a man to tickle our ears with what we like to hear,
or are sound ideas and policies more important. Calling Bill Clinton the
greatest politician of our time is not compliment, though I think it's true.
He has changed the office of the Presidency forever . We now have a man
who could very well be our neighbor if he wasn't in the white house. We
know what type of underwear he wears, we named his dog, we hear him commenting
on various issues almost daily, we would not rust him alone with our wives
or daughters and hardly anyone believes he is an honest man. In the great
scheme of things, he's out for number one, himself. The great heavenly justice
is aready under way. His legecy is the most important thing to him. That
is how the history books will deal with his 2 terms in office. I believe
he has already take care of that. He told us that his administration would
be the most ethical administration in history. I will end this graciously
with an understatement that this has not been accomplished.

Patrick Henry

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